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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
===Topography and ecology=== | ===Topography and ecology=== | ||
[[File:Highlands05.jpg|thumb | [[File:Highlands05.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Military Wilderness Training Preserve]] within the Highland Mountains.{{Ref/Reuse|defiantend}}]] | ||
Wild [[list of food and drinks|blueberry]] bushes and [[cedar]] trees grew in the mountains.<ref>''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', p. 64-65</ref> East of the Highland Mountains is the [[Arany Basin]].{{Ref/Novel|SoR|Chapter=1}} | Wild [[list of food and drinks|blueberry]] bushes and [[cedar]] trees grew in the mountains.<ref>''Halo: The Fall of Reach'', p. 64-65</ref> East of the Highland Mountains is the [[Arany Basin]].{{Ref/Novel|SoR|Chapter=1}} | ||
====Locations==== | ====Locations==== | ||
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===Insurrection=== | ===Insurrection=== | ||
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[[File:HR Highlands Valley.png|250px|thumb | [[File:HR Highlands Valley.png|250px|thumb|A part of [[Longhorn Valley]] at the mountains during the [[Fall of Reach]].]] | ||
===Human-Covenant | ===Human-Covenant War=== | ||
{{Main|Human-Covenant | {{Main|Human-Covenant War}} | ||
After the [[Fall of Reach]] on [[2552#August|August 30, 2552]], The Highlands were one of the few areas on Reach to escape the [[Covenant]] [[glassing|plasma bombardment]]{{Ref/Reuse|sorchapt18}}, though glassing did occur in the area on a small scale.{{Ref/Map|Halo: Reach|[[Highlands]]}} The Covenant concentrated their forces in the region and set up an extensive excavation operation around Menachite Mountain in order to uncover a massive [[Menachite portal complex|subterranean Forerunner structure]].<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', p. 184 (2003 edition)</ref> | After the [[Fall of Reach]] on [[2552#August|August 30, 2552]], The Highlands were one of the few areas on Reach to escape the [[Covenant]] [[glassing|plasma bombardment]]{{Ref/Reuse|sorchapt18}}, though glassing did occur in the area on a small scale.{{Ref/Map|Halo: Reach|[[Highlands]]}} The Covenant concentrated their forces in the region and set up an extensive excavation operation around Menachite Mountain in order to uncover a massive [[Menachite portal complex|subterranean Forerunner structure]].<ref>''Halo: First Strike'', p. 184 (2003 edition)</ref> | ||